skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effect I am going for is to reduce my body's production of stress hormones. Consulting a clinical psychologist and Googling around on the phrase "mindfulness-based stress reduction" lead me to believe that 4 minutes a day suffices to get that effect.

Also, those 3-5 minutes sometimes cause subjective experiences of increased calmness that tend to last the rest of the day.

It probably takes longer durations to achieve some of the other effects commonly ascribed to meditation (e.g., becoming more contented). I have tried longer durations, but I judge that in my particular case they are more likely to be harmful than helpful.

Specifically, I have a bit of a chronic health problem which necessitates that my immune system remain always strong and active. Getting too much sun and not getting enough sleep are 2 things that personal experiences lead me to believe are bad for me -- and according to immunology researchers, those 2 things suppress the immune system. The suppression tends to last only a few hours or a day, but that is long enough for me to notice bad effects. Meditating for hours at a time produced subjective effects in me similar to the effects of those 2 other things that suppress my immune system.

So, that is one reason I avoid long meditation sessions and tend to advise other people with chronic health issues similar to mine to do the same.

Sometimes (particularly, in the rare situation described in grandparent in which the first meditation session of the day ends with me looking at a web browser, looking at some file on my computer or doing something else other than meditating) I do 2 to 4 sessions (of 3 to 5 minutes each) a day, and I have not experienced the adverse health effect mentioned above on such days.

By the way, a large part of time I am meditating I am resisting urges (the theme of the OP) rather than doing what most meditators describe, namely, resisting attachment to or involvement in sensations or resisting dwelling on regrets about the past or worries about the future. Specifically, urges to execute a sequence of motor actions (e.g., get out of my chair and move something that needs moving) or to plan out how to achieve some goal.
MRAs that describe themselves as "anti-feminist" tend to be a certain kind of bitter - the vocal crazies that you talk about.
Are you claiming TPB is not commercial because the person sending the file is not charging the person receiving the file, in a relationship facilitated commercially by TPB?
I don't think that means he's against the dictionary definition of feminism. Much more likely he's against the contemporary feminist movement, which is a pretty common sentiment. Here's a good explanation: http://www.feminisnt.com/2009/biography-of-a-pornographic-po... There's a lot on that page but start here:

Why would you NOT want call yourself a feminist? Barring being a feminist, the only option left is that you must be a misogynist.

I don't call myself a suffragette, either, but that doesn't mean I am against women being allowed to vote. I consider myself very much anti-sexist and pro-equality, because sexism is still a problem in my society. However, oppressive attitudes based on gender and sexuality are frequently perpetuated by people who call themselves feminists, and anti-male sexism (perpetuated by feminists in particular) is on the rise.
I have read good things about Webkit, it looks a huge project: but I'll check it out.
The first, one of the first, why does it really matter? He's clearly using this as a platform to attack things that feminists say in order to feel good about himself.
It's lower than Kickstarter's (the 5% mentioned doesn't include the Amazon processing fee, iirc).
TPB may or may not be commercial, and it doesn't matter in the slightest here, as they're aiding a noncommercial and therefore legal sharing of knowledge and culture. Aiding that would always be legal under this proposal.

Somebody making money off of aiding a legal noncommercial sharing doesn't make the original sharing commercial and illegal. Again, compare dating.

And if you can make money off of people wanting to share culture and knowledge, all the better for you.
I don't have much experience with IIS, do you think it will be able to handle load as that of httpd, nginx, etc?
Seemed rhetorical to me...
I'm currently taking A-level physics and Olber's Paradox isn't part of the syllabus at all, unfortunately.
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If I want to give something to a mate for free and do this through the post, then the delivery company is making money off the fact that I am doing so. But this does not mean that the transaction between me and my mate is commercial, even though a commercial entity is making money off the delivery.
I think it is completely absurd that tablet OS's would ever allow a website to disable zooming. It's like a usability nightmare. Permanent solutions... maybe email the websites that do it?
It's really irritating how feminists insist that anyone who disagrees with their very narrow and totally contradictory views of what it means for "women to be equal" is against equality for women.
This is too black and white. Don't fret, you can use function calls all you want in python... the situations in which Guido is talking about being conscious of your stack frame are pretty rare in typical practice.

Also, getters/setters are totally inane in python (and probably most other languages).

In fact, in general Guido's advice reads as a good warning to folks showing up from other languages who's first reaction might be to create a com/mycubiclefarm/exceptions/abstract/ directory and start writing SeriousBaseClassesForMyExceptions.
Numba and Cython are also worth mentioning if you're doing numeric programming.
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"The founder of the company Kimera Systems wants your smartphone to think for you. He envisions a network of connected devices that use so-called smart software agents to track your friends, suggest food at a restaurant and even find someone to paint your house. That explanation is a bit simplistic, but it gets to the heart of what the Artificial General Intelligence network is theoretically capable of." "Apple's Siri, the current standard bearer for smartphone AI, has nominal contextual awareness; it understands whether you are speaking to it or trying to determine your location, for instance. Kimera Systems of Portland, Oregon, aims to give the device a broader understanding of what you are doing and why you are doing it. The idea is to adapt to the individual. Think of it as a step toward turning your smartphone into an extension of yourself."
According to the redshift and mass measurements of distant galaxies, it seems like the universe is expanding faster than gravity would keep it together.
Not necessarily, but it's a decent heuristic for spotting a confused point of view and argumentative tendencies, which suit an irrational voice so well. Also, it's a fine reason not to bother reading something. ... I hadn't noticed the self-description; but the sophomorically sloppy, self-important, ungramatical writing style made it dismissable enough for me.
Python code optimization is actually tricky ground where analogies from other languages (like C/C++) don't necessarily apply.

One of the more surprising results (esp. for non-pythonists) is the fact that string formatting:

s = "%s" % some_integer

is faster than "casting" to string:

s = str(some_intenger)

That's solely because looking up the 'str' symbol requires finding an element in global symbols' hashtable. This turns out to be more expensive than parsing the format string and building the result of % operator.
Coming from Oracle, "Hello world" feels oddly menacing. Like they're planning another takeover.
Don't assume that threads will be useful, in CPython they are simply an abstraction and don't actually run in parallel. To make use of a multi core system you need to use processes.

I'd still like it if they could get rid of the GIL...
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Issac Newton got quite bored after becoming immortal and now has a little booth set up at the patent office. Don't take the piss out of his wig, otherwise you will get nowhere with him.
Just because you don't like a feature or design choice doesn't mean that the entire language sucks. If used right, cascading can be incredible powerful. If used poorly, it's a total PITA.

You could make similar complaints about insert your favorite language/framework here.

If you want to make webpages, you're pretty much stuck with CSS for the foreseeable future. Better to promote best practice rather than writing off the entire language.
Actually, I fear for NVIDIA's HPC market as well. Kepler 2 in my eyes is not well suited for GPGPU, they've rather optimized it for the gaming market in order to go after AMD. I.e. they introduced much more cores, but those cores now have less cache and register resources available to them. Less registers, especially, is deadly - this has already been a limiting factor for many HPC applications.

Meanwhile Intel pushes out their Xeon Phi boards with huge memory bandwidth and OpenMP support. If there's not some kind of surprise in terms of performance either on Intel's or NVIDIA's side I see dark clouds coming for them.
Having been the guy creating the powerpoints to spoonfeed to the board for a fortune 500 company, I'm going to say in the large public companies the C level people try and keep the board as far away from constructive input. Being the guy who has pointed out that something may be deeply flawed let me tell you this is not a good way to advance your career.
He's also had an interesting and opinionated website since basically forever.

Also it was he who talked them into open sourcing mozilla
> What sort of sane person is against the notion that women should be equal?

What the hell does it even mean? Today "equal" is just a semantic stopsign [0]. His YouTube channel description at least attempts to explain how he understands the term 'equality'. You can agree or disagree with "equality of outcomes" vs. "equality of opportunity", but "men/women should be equal" is just plain meaningless.

> No, but he sounds like a complete dickwad.

Also, it's still an ad hominem. We should evaluate his arguments on their merits, not on his beliefs. Which we can do after we actually read them.

[0] - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Semantic_stopsign
That generation will not get to live on Earth at all, because by then the sun will have expanded and swallowed it. Even ignoring that humans as we know them will not exist at that point, this is surely a bigger problem than the lack of stars.
There's plenty of dev channels here and there, or run a #letshacktoday channel (or something) and post it up in SO and here.
He wants to out modern feminism as a movement based on emotion and propaganda, not fact.
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I needed to read that. Thank you!
They aren't entirely a non-parallel abstraction. C extension modules can release the GIL[1] and continue calculating. A notable example of this is Numpy/Scipy[2].

[1]: http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#thread-state-and-the-...
[2]: http://www.scipy.org/ParallelProgramming#head-9e56edb190bf1e...
Ouch, my bad, sorry! Didn't notice it when submitting, likely due to institutional access.
It is really irritating how people insist on using the term "feminist" to refer to a narrow, incoherent media trope.
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The concern in this case is that the average consumer might pay the file-sharing service for the content, thinking it is going to the content creators.

You can't simply abolish a system like copyright because it protects the people who create original work. Otherwise people will sell their work. IE. If TPB created a premium offering, wouldn't everybody pay for that instead of offerings which actually paid the content creators?

Why don't we work on building a system which allows a consumer to reliably identify and pay the creator of a work? This way content can still be freely distributed, but the consumer can easily support/finance the creator if they want.
You are right, competition is good in this market. We are trying to create easy to use software. Github and bitbucket are both awesome products and Pikacode wants to provide similar service but with different implementation such as Scrum features and team work.
"Seems like a misunderstanding"

I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion.
Am I the only one for whom the paradox isn't intuitive? It's not clear to me why many distant dim stars should add up to a bright sky. It depends on how distant and how dense they are, doesn't it? Even assuming that the universe is infinite and eternal and approximately equally dense everywhere.

The embedded video describes the paradox by saying that the night sky "should be as bright as the sun". Imagine if that were the case. Then move yourself twice as close to the sun, making the sun four times brighter. Then the night sky is 1/4 as bright as the sun.

So clearly, distance and (lack of) density could make the night sky less bright, presumably to below the threshold of human perception. Right? Even aside from their explanations of distant light not having had time to reach us, and/or being red-shifted out of our visible range.
AFAIK, open source is what killed Delphi
In risk terms, the satellite that was ditched is worth absolutely nothing compared to the ISS. The ISS is the single most important thing humans have in space at the moment.

Purely on the basis that the new trajectory can't be gone over with a pin, even if all the maths comes out saying that everything is lovely, you do not refire an ISS delivery rocket that is not where you expected it to be, especially one that has already sustained damage, just to test a new robot.
My organization's public-facing website is on a .mil domain.

Our sysadmins tell us that for compliance reasons, any server-side processing is prohibited and right now the only way to update the site is a combination of RDP and sneakernet. But, until recently, we could update it via ftp. (they got in trouble for it during our last inspection, hence the sneakernet)

I've been playing with the idea of building a new site for our public affairs folks (the ones who are responsible for content) based on pelican or jekyll. Using a static site generator will get us around the no server-side problem, but there is still the problem of needing to transfer an entire site's worth of data avery time there is a small edit made. If we still had ftp access to our server, this would solve that problem.
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Beyond what was already said, it's a simple numbers game. I can have a 5 person company and yield an 80% margin. Sounds like a win, right?

What if my total revenue was $1mm, with a total market size representing about $10mm? Technically profitable, but a terrible investment for a VC.

Ultimately VCs want to see a clear path to $50-100mm, or they'll be reluctant to invest.
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1. Intel is safe for the foreseeable future, they have a unique position as far as manufacturing and processes go.

2. I suspect the engineering barriers in developing an OMAP class processor are much lower than what AMD has to deal with it in x86 and graphics markets. There is a large amount of off the shelf IP for mobile application processors and they have lots of internal knowledge they could use to customize the ICs (graphics, core architecture).

The problem there is that I'm not sure who the buyers are - the two giants (Apple and Samsung) are making their own processors, so unless you're making cut price ICs (a very crowded market) you are somewhat limited. I don't think the Tegra is bad from a technical standpoint, it's just that the number of really high volume customers is not infinite.

Nevertheless I'd love to see AMD stepping away from the x86 game into a wide ARM portfolio. I'm sure ARM would play ball, it'd be a major win for them and with ATI's graphics/hpc expertise we could see killer solutions.
No wonder 95% of all startups fail! :D
Would love to have table based comparison with number of files, file size, etc
I have seen IIS handle 1000s of requests per second using .NET.
Nifty hack, but doesn't ncftp only upload changed files by default? ISTR running into this exact problem a few years back trying to deploy CakePHP apps to cheapo hosts.

Funny enough, I even did a blog post about it, though it was more about being able to do the equivalent of Rails environments than about the FTP thing: http://ertw.com/blog/2007/11/05/pushing-a-cakephp-app-from-d...
Someone clearly let the straw feminists out of the closet again. HSSSSS!

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=341
I am in Malaysia and it doesn't show up in FF or Chrome.
The better MRAs are more even-handed and rational than any feminists I've come across, and screw women over less too in some important regards. For instance, they actually consider female-perpetrated rape and abuse against other women to be just as wrong as any other form of rape or abuse, which is something feminists fairly consistently fail at.

I've even seen a major feminist blogger take her own experiences of abuse, conclude from them that all such abuse is caused by the abuser being male, then tell another woman who'd been abused in the same way by her mother that it was "irrational" for her to be upset by this and that she was "erasing" the blogger's own "lived experiences" by complaining about said blogger's conclusions, and bemoan how she'd been lead astray by the evil MRA community into thinking that her experiences actually mattered.
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Well have you ever independently verified any of his claims through your own experiential work? You might be (less) skeptical had you done so, although healthy skepticism is never a bad thing. I guess you missed the part where Grof said he was a materialist monoist Freudian prior to the use of therapeutic LSD in his practice.

It was experiential evidence that caused Grof to revise his views of the world - what makes you change your mind?
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I'd say legally the term 'performance' could have a very broad definition and could be referred to as any 'act'.
Hilarious. I think AshleyMadison.com comes in after the "7 year itch".
Apparently there's a function call overhead as well that the % operator doesn't incur because

for i in xrange(10000000):
s = "%s" % i

is also faster than

lstr = str
for i in xrange(10000000):
s = lstr(i)

[Edit] After thinking about it a second longer, I wonder whether there is some lookup for lstr as well even though it's local. But storing the function in lstr is faster than using str so I'm not sure how this is actually implemented. I'm sure someone here will know more.
I would just say:

1. Use built in data structures whenever possible

2. First fix your process flow, then spend more time to fix your code. Doing steps A C E F B and D might be better than A B C D E F.

3. Write direct queries with db when all else fails.
Well, there's PyPy, which is on average 5.7 times faster than CPython. So these optimisations are definitely possible, not hypothetical.
That's in the works. Nice to see someone else wants that too :)
I agree with everything you said, but if you watch the actual video, the performance is clearly not tied to the particular song:)
I completely disagree with the theory "Startup = Idea".

My counter argument is:
"Good Ideas Grow On Trees"

Working with a startup myself, I can clearly see why Paul Graham nailed it down to "growth" and not "idea".

The "idea" part of an startup is the easy one. I scientifically researched the topic 'innovation capability' and 'innovativeness' of organizations and the crucial part is not to come up with an idea. As said "good ideas grow on trees". The hard work is the execution of an startup idea to get "growth".

The main difference between startups is not their idea, but their growth. Many people can come up with a new startup idea in days, maybe even with a new idea within minutes. But it can take years to bring an idea to success.

Here are examples of good ideas that are growing on trees:
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-for-a-first-time-e...

There are endless startup ideas. Even the idea newness, how radical new a startup idea is, is not the main aspect of an startup. Again the main difference between startups is if they can execute the idea and get growth.
For example with our startup we were the first to hit a large, untapped or underserved market. But the lack of execution and growth was what killed it. There are always other people who sooner or later have a similar idea. The main difference again is which startup executes the idea the best, the fastest and gets the most growth.
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Surely you mean New Yoyk. ;)
They sound like very reasonable proposals, that I would think most people with common sense with accept. I especially find interesting the proposal to use R&D for the pharmaceutical industry from the Government. I just don't know how practical that is. It would need serious commitment and serious investment from Governments to do that.

In countries where healthcare is also paid by the Government, that might work, but I doubt many of them would take on it eventually. I don't think any of this would be implemented in US in the short to medium term, though, as that kind of proposal would be immediately considered communist by half the country (especially if Fox News has anything to say about it).

I'm also not sure if I would let the Government be 100% responsible for the pharmaceutical R&D, but maybe it could use taxpayer money for some R&D anyway, and any drug that comes out of it, would be patent-free. Think of it as the open source Linux to Microsoft's Windows, or Firefox to IE. Companies would still be free to patent drugs and sell them for whatever they want, but the Government would be able to reverse engineer or create very similar alternatives that are patent-free, and much cheaper.
The reason is that the flux from any particular star goes as 1 / distance^2, but the number of stars observed in a patch of sky increases like the distance^2. The two cancel each other out.

An easier way of thinking of it is to think about looking along a single direction. No matter which direction you look, this ray will always be pointed towards the surface of a star.

(Incidentally, when thinking about these sorts of problems, it helps to distinguish flux from specific intensity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_radiative_intensity)
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Given the new Amazon Lending program, I'm guessing they're starting to move in that direction. It's for sellers buying inventory now, but Amazon has a lot of data about what sells that can help it determine what's a good risk for investment.

Cam, you rock.
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Well, if you could assume that everything will work as expected, you wouldn't need insurance!
It's not fixed here (EU).
Sorry, but my code is in Java, C++ and static files.
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"And if it trains willpower, then the long term result will likely be better than doing nothing."

This is the key. Does it train willpower? Is it like physical exercise? Or does it just deplete, with no benefit?

I can see the reason for thinking it might be a benefit, but without actually showing that it is, it seems wrong to just assume.